An indoor-outdoor event with various local artists opens Friday from 6-8 p.m., with gallery profits from the show donated to Forsyth Farmer’s Market programs.
Nicole Youngblut
Nicole Youngblut is a contributing writer for Connect Savannah, where she covers the local art and events scene. As a graduate of The Fashion Institute of Technology, she spent many years in New York City as a fashion stylist and promoter. Her passion for biographies, entertainment and the arts is the perfect mix for journalism.
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Virginia Jackson Kiah
SCAD is honoring Civil Rights activist, educator, painter, and museum founder Virginia Jackson Kiah with a permanent collection, “Live Your Vision: An Online Exhibition by Virginia Jackson Kiah.”
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Take an Atlanta day trip to Illuminarium
Atlanta will welcome the world’s first illuminarium on July 1. Take a day trip and be a part of this permanent attraction that will provide ever-changing entertainment and culture off Atlanta’s BeltLine. Their first experience will be Wild Safari, which will take you and your family on a once-in-a-lifetime interactive experience with touch, smell and sight.
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Artist captures controlled explosions in photography
Los Angeles-based artist Kevin Cooley exhibits his photography and video installation “Exploded Views,” a series of controlled explosions in the desert, in at Laney Contemporary in Savannah from July 1 through September 18.
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SCAD places in top 100 at international design competition, CodaWorx
CodaWorx stands for the collaboration of design + art, and it’s an award-based collaboration and all of the people working together to create a large body of art. The international award features ten different design categories are ranging from hospitality, education, institutional, transportation, and jury scores determine winners of those categories. The Savannah College of Art and Design’s submitted project placed in the top 100 CodaWorx Annual Awards Program.
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A mother-daughter exhibit
Sulfur Studios presents “The Play of Light,” a collaborative mother and daughter exhibition by Kathy and Maggie Hayes, which takes into consideration the way that light is experienced in the natural world and how that can reflect an inner experience of light and dark as well, both ripe with feeling, color and texture.
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Artist captures controlled explosions in photography
Los Angeles-based artist Kevin Cooley exhibits his photography and video installation “Exploded Views,” a series of controlled explosions in the desert, at Laney Contemporary in Savannah from July 1 through Sept. 18.
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The Estes Gallery debuts at Great Oaks Bank
Great Oaks Bank CEO Mike Odom, Jr. has teamed up with Arts on the Coast to welcome the newest art gallery to Richmond Hill. A highly anticipated event after having been moved multiple times due to COVID restrictions and concerns, the Great Oaks Bank gallery was officially opened and dedicated on June 3. The gallery was dedicated to Barbara and the late Jimmy Estes, founding and integral members of Arts on the Coast.
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‘New Paintings’ by Thomas Mitz & Emmy
Thomas Mitz and Emmy share a mutual admiration for one another’s dedication to art. With their radically different approach to painting—Mitz being deliberately meticulous and Emmy’s work having a whimsical nature—their work finds commonalities in their ability to convey emotion through their complexity of art. Both Emmy and Mitz’s collections have never been shown before.
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Savannah Book Festival organizers are gearing up for 2022 event, considering authors
The Savannah Book Festival will be back in 2022, and officials are busy planning for an in-person event scheduled to take place next February 17-20 with three main ticketed event headliners and a free Festival Saturday.
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Atlanta-based artist debut’s first solo exhibition at Laney Contemporary
Laney Contemporary presents an in-person artist talk with Atlanta-based painter Craig Drennen which will also be broadcasted live via Instagram on June 11. “Merchants, Bandits, and Certain Senators” is Drennen’s first solo exhibition at Laney Contemporary and inspired by the Shakespearean play “Timon of Athens.” This exhibition also marks the first time the Merchant works have been shown in public.
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POP! POP! POW to open at Location Gallery
Austin Hill Realty presents POP! POP! POW opening June 4 at Location Gallery.